Cosmetics & Personal care
Cosmetic products, which are high consumption products, are the outcome of an industrial sector with diversified know-how, particularly in the supply of raw materials.
Today, the Seqens group has a strong expertise in the development and manufacture of specialty ingredients for various cosmetic applications such as small synthetic molecules and polymers :
- Functionalized polymers: acrylics, siloxanes, PEG, polyamides, PLGA, etc.
- Active ingredients: anti-microbial, anti-aging, moisturizers, skin protection, UV filters, etc.
- Functional ingredients: preservatives, emollients, emulsifiers, texturizers, etc.
Seqens group’s R&D centers are a true technological platform with more than 100 scientists at the service of process innovation and of its customers.
With its experience in multi-step synthesis, the group brings all its know-how, among others, in esterification, hydrogenation and Friedel-Crafts reactions, the chemistry of heterocycles (thiophene, furan, etc.) and fatty acid chlorides (saturated or unsaturated chain), as well as organometallic and enzymatic catalysts (through synergies with the subsidiary Protéus, specialized in biotechnologies).
Natural Active Care Ingredients
Our offer
- Proprietary botanical actives (innovations platforms = exposome/longevity/glyco-intelligence)
- Custom plant extracts (titrated and inspirational) & complexes
Know-how & tools
- Sourcing (Nagoya, Ecocert, Cosmos)
- Sustainability (responsible sourcing)
- Extraction (solid/liquid or liquid/liquid)
- Separation (enzyme assisted process)
Functional Care Ingredients
Our Offer
- Non traditional preservatives: preservation booster (ChemoxyCare®)
- Essentials : bicarbonate & salicylic derviatives
Know-how & tools
- Eco-friendly ingredients (natural alternatives)
- Pharma grade
- Paraben free
- China compliant & Cosmos approved
Synthetic Active Care Ingredients
Our Offer
Active ingredients :
Cosmetics ingredients :
Know-how & tools
- Polymerization
- Esterification
- Friedel & Craft reaction
- Halogenation
- Oxidation
- Hydrogenation
- Biocatalysis
BOTANICAL EXTRACTS
Seqens cosmetics offers a wide array of tailor-made botanical ingredients thanks to expertise in botanical and biotech extractions along with best-in-class project management skills, agility and flexibility. Our expertise in enzymatic extraction and purification enables Seqens to develop ingredients with controlled traceability, best-in-class quality and analytical profiling, together with substantiated efficacy.
Custom manufacturing
- Custom actives
- Cocreatation of botanical ingredients.
- Exclusive extracts
Our locations
Nîmes Protéus by Seqens
France30000 Nîmes
Surface: 1, 000 m²
Lab surface: 500 m²
Capacities:
- 1 kilo-lab in fermentation (80 L total capacity)
- Robotic platform for highthroughput screening (HTS)
- Analytical platform for chromatography (GC, GC-MS, U-HPLC)
Flagship technologies:
- Protein engineering
- Microbiology aerobic & anaerobic
- Syngas fermentation
- Enzymes & strains fermentation
- Biochemistry
- Biocatalysis
- Design of experiments (DoE)
- Data mining
Number of scientists: 19
EcoVadis CSR Rating: Silver Certification
Porcheville (Seqens'Lab)
France78440 Porcheville
Surface: 40, 000 m²
Lab surface: 2, 000 m²
Capabilities:
- 6 kilo-labs
- 2 cGMP pilot plants with 11 multipurpose reactors from 100 L to 2, 800 L (total capacity of 12 m³)
- Temperature range: -15/+150°C (hastelloy reactor: -80/+200°C)
- 3 finishing rooms (agitated filter dryers, filters, dryers, milling and sieving equipments)
Flagship technologies:
- Crystallization expertise and technologiesd(salt, co-crystal and polymorph screenings, process development)
- Process Safety expertise and tecnologies
- Flow chemistry for fine chemicals
- Potent API process development
- Genotoxic Impurities
- Issue Management
- Generic A.P.I Solid state expertise
Last inspection: ANSM October 2018
Certification: GMP
Number of scientists: 110
Other: Ecosystem Pharma with integrated services
Consumer Healthcare Roussillon
France38556 Roussillon
Capabilities:
- 20 kt Salicylic ACid
- 6 kt Methyl Salicilate
Last inspections:
- ANSM, February 2018
- FDA, June 2016
- ISO, March 2018
Certifications:
- cGMP
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- OHSAS 18001
- ISO 22000
- Kascher
- Halal
- EcoVadis CSR Rating: Platinium certification
Cosmetics Limoges
France87068 Limoges
Surface: 2, 000 m²
Lab surface: 70 m²
Capabilities: 4, 570 L of cosmetics reactors (80 L to 1 400 L)
Flagship technologies: Botanical extraction
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ECOCERT/COSMOS
Number of scientists: 3
EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification
Custom Specialties Billingham
United KingdomTS23 1PY Billingham
Surface: 42, 000 m²
Capabilities:
- 4 reaction vessels (316 L and Duplex 2205) of 25-35 m³ capacity with associated distillation columns of 6-30 plates
- Glass lined reaction vessel (14 m³)
Flagship technologies:
Primary Reactions
- Esterification
- Etherification
- Epoxidation
- Methylation/Methyl chloride capping
- Quaternisation
- Transeterification.
Secondary reactions
- Acetal formation
- Acetylation
- Aldol condensation,
- Alkylation
- Diels-Alder
- Hydrolysis
- Isomerisation
- Oxidation
- Polymerisation
Solvent Recovery
- Alcohols,
- Amines
- Aromatic solvents
- Esters
- Glycols
- Ketones
- Organic acids
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification
Custom Specialties Middlesbrough
United KingdomTS3 6AF Middlesbrough
Surface: 68, 000 m²
Capabilities:
- 48 plate distillation column
- 18 plate distillation column
- 4 reaction vessels (316 L and Duplex 2205) of 25-30m³ capacity with distillation columns attached (6-30 plates)
Flagship technologies:
Primary Reactions
- Esterification
- Etherification
- Epoxidation
- Methylation/Methyl chloride capping
- Quaternisation
- Transesterification.
Secondary reactions
- Acetal formation
- Acetylation
- Aldol condensation,
- Alkylation
- Diels-Alder
- Hydrolysis
- Isomerisation
- Oxidation
- Polymerisation
Solvent Recovery
- Alcohols,
- Amines
- Aromatic solvents
- Esters
- Glycols
- Ketones
- Organic acids
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification
Advanced Specialties Couterne
France61410Couterne
Surface: 120, 000 m²
Capabilities: 190 m³ of ISO 9001 reactors and kilo-lab
Flagship technologies: Most standard organic synthesis reactions (large volumes)
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification